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- karez in Afghanistan and ****stan, foggara in Algeria, qanat in Malta, khettara in Morocco, falaj in Oman and the United Arab Emirates, and uyūn in Saudi...
- large houses, the Almoravids built an original hydraulic system called khettara. It is an underground drainage tunnel that brings water from the groundwater...
- system draws from both surface waters and subterranean waters. A series of khettaras (a type of underground canal) draws subterranean waters from the phreatic...
- ISBN 9783447020022. El Faiz, Mohammed; Ruf, Thierry (2010). "An Introduction to the Khettara in Morocco: Two Contrasting Cases". Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions:...
- its water supply by creating the underground water system known as the khettara. In 1125, the preacher Ibn Tumart settled in Tin Mal in the mountains to...
- of their fertility may derive from irrigation systems called foggaras, khettaras, lkhttarts, or a variety of other regional names. In some oases systems...
- (ဘုရားကိုးဆူ, lit. "Nine Deities") – This was a devotional rite performed by Khettara Brahmins. The deities referenced were either Buddhist: Buddha and the 8...
- in a more arid environment, was supplied in large part by a system of khettaras, an ingenious and complex system by which an underground channel was dug...
- by Arab warriors, it was created during the Almoravid period, using a khettara network. The ancient tale (more than 1000 years old) refers to this garden...
- of Arid Environments, 33(3), 321-336. Lightfoot, D. R. (1996). Moroccan khettara: traditional irrigation and progressive desiccation. Geoforum, 27(2), 261-273...